Friday, April 29, 2005

Rice Calls for More Democracy

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Now in Chile, the Secretary of State has redoubled democracy-builidng efforts, according to Yahoo! News : "In her seven-minute speech h...

Mark Steyn Does it Again

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This is pretty funny from The Spectator.co.uk : Did you see that picture in the paper this week? It was the same day as the announcement tha...

Agustin Blazquez on Estela Bravo

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Blazquez calls this article about the showing of Bravo's 1992 'documentary' at the Havana Film Festival on April 18, 2004, '...

Putin: Trading Ukraine & Georgia for Israel & Palestine

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That's the gist of this analysis on the not always reliable DEBKAfile, Putin's Mid East Visits Signpost Unfolding Russian Penetrati...

So Many Enemies, So Little time

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Just started reading Elinor Burkett's So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places , which I ordered from...
Thursday, April 28, 2005

Philip Morrison, RIP

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A nice obituary for Philip Morrison, 1915 – 2005 , on Space.com. I met Morrison while in high school. He was really an inspirational figu...

Federal Arts Bureaucrats Destroying Arts Education (Part I)

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The "dumbing down" of America, thanks to federally-funded arts bureaucrats, continues relentlessly in the Bush administration, acc...
Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Vladimir Putin: This Year in Jerusalem

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Putin Makes Historic Visit to Israel is the headline on today's AP story. It's Russian Orthodox Easter and Jewish Passover (not Wes...

Putin Blinks on Khodorkovsky

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News from Moscow that Khodorkovsky's verdict will come down after V-E Day celebrations means Putin was afraid to convict him before Bush...
Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Latest on the Khodorkovsky Case

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Verdict is due Wednesday. Here's a link to KhodorkovskyTrial.com - Press Center for Mikhail Khodorkovsky. I still think Putin shoul...

Outing the Bolton Haters (Cont'd.)

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First, Colin Powell, now fashion diva Diana Vreeland's son Frederick, according to Powerlineblog . Who will be outed next? Interestingl...

"White Trash" Culture Oppresses African-Americans

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Today's Wall Street Journal has a really fascinating column by Thomas Sowell. He analyzes racial myths, and comes to the conclusion that...
Monday, April 25, 2005

Putin: "Russia should continue its civilising mission..."

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In his address to the nation, (online at http://www.kremlin.ru), Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin made a moral and intellectual case for Russia&...

Putin & Bush Celebrate Allied Elbe Anniversary

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No doubt Condoleeza Rice worked on this statement. Could it signal the rekindling of a beautiful friendship? MOSCOW, April 25 (RIA Novosti) ...

Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Italian Liberation

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at Harry's Place.

Bill Kristol: "Only girlie men need apply..."

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President George W. Bush can't afford to fold on Bolton without becoming, in the analytic of George F. Will, an instant "lame duck....

Internet Haganah

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Today's Washington Post had a cover story on Aaron Weisbrud , the blogger who tracks down pro-terrorist websites. Weisburd, 41, a half-...

Still More Pathetic Bolton Charges

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From The Sydney Morning Herald : In her letter, Ms Finney said she was a lawyer-adviser working on policies when Mr Bolton called her into h...

Art of Afghanistan in Washington, DC

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Now on display at the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, a show of Afghan treasures from the Timurid dynasty. The show got a rave...

My Dream Seder

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Reality meets the dream in Cousin Lucy's Spoon's story of this year's Passover celebration in Israel .